# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mario-maccaferri
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:16:34.051Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mario-maccaferri"
name: "Mario Maccaferri"
slug: "mario-maccaferri"
description: "Mario Maccaferri (1900–1993) was an Italian luthier, classical guitarist, businessman, and inventor. He is noted for designing the guitar favored by jazz musician Django Reinhardt, and for designing plastic clothespins, plastic bath and kitchen tiles and the plastic Islander ukulele which sold millions of copies in the mid-1900s. From 1939 he lived and worked in the United States. As of 2016 his daughter Elaine still runs the family company French American Reeds Inc."
tagline: "Italian luthier and guitarist (1900-1993)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1900-05-20"
deathDate: "1993-04-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.03
  momentum:             0.6984126984126985
  historical:           6.345465333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Maccaferri"
    title: "Mario Maccaferri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89"
    title: "ماريو ماكافيرى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Maccaferri"
    title: "Mario Maccaferri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Maccaferri"
    title: "Mario Maccaferri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Maccaferri"
    title: "Mario Maccaferri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Maccaferri"
    title: "Mario Maccaferri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Maccaferri"
    title: "Mario Maccaferri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q732020"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump